DATASHEET APTEAN ANALYTICS WHAT IT IS WHY YOU NEED IT Measure twice, cut once. The old adage is sound advice if you’re Aptean Analytics are designed to meet the needs of today’s busy with the cast of This Old House—it saves headaches, keeping and complex service and support operations, offering flexibility the project on time and on budget. The same holds true when it and scalability that has never been available before: comes to measuring your service and support initiatives. • Analyze and compare data over long periods of time—after Sizing up those metrics used to be a pretty cut-and-dry process. all knowledge programs grow and evolve over the years, not We knew that shorter hold times are better; higher abandonment months. rates are worse. Unfortunately, it’s no longer as easy as getting out the tape measure. Today’s customers expect a superior customer experience through a mix of support channels like self-service, chat, forums and the traditional phone call. More advanced tools are needed to measure our efforts. Powered by QlikView business intelligence software from QlikTech, Aptean Analytics is a visual, intuitive set of tools with predefined rolebased reports built on cutting edge technology. They solve the problems of old school OLAP cube-based reporting which was limited and slow. And they solve newer problems associated with reporting consistently across multiple service and support channels. Aptean Analytics help you answer pressing business questions that will help you drive to the truth about your service levels, like: • Who is creating value in the knowledgebase and where are the gaps? • What’s the highest value product improvement we can make? • How can we tune our customer experience to better resolve issues? • How effectively are service and support staff closing cases? Does their escalation rate meet expectations? How well are they meeting their service-level agreements (SLAs)? www.aptean.com • Process large amounts of data without bringing the system to its knees. • Measure cases and knowledge together—analytics are designed to answer business questions, not just report on the activities that took place in any one particular technology silo. • Meet end user expectations—by providing an intelligent, visually rich interface. 2 APTEAN ANALYTICS WHAT IT DOES In-memory analytical processing—allows you to analyze large data volumes on the fly so that it becomes possible to look at data across long periods of time. Associative data model—people think in non-linear paths by building associations, and so do our analytics. This logical approach connects a wide range of data sources efficiently and gives us faster access to data. Prebuilt high-value reports across three areas—Authoring, Knowledge and Success analysis. Flexibility to create custom reports—report formulas and calculations are exposed and can be easily modified to suit individual needs and without the need for technical expertise. Visually interactive interface—Drives user adoption and “ Knowledge-Centered Support is a proven practice for capturing, improving, and taking advantage of knowledge with each customer contact. The list of support organizations implementing KCS continues to increase, as does the success they accrue by making their staff more efficient, their self-service more effective, and their customers more successful. “ DATASHEET David Kay Leading Knowledge Management Consultant, Co-author of Collective Wisdom: Transforming Support with Knowledge increases usability across multiple roles in the organization. MORE ON APTEAN ANALYTICS Aptean Analytics’ associative in-memory technology brings fast results and better decision-making through a series of rolebased pre-defined dashboards designed to help line managers, operations analysts, knowledge program managers and website owners do their jobs more effectively. Knowledge program managers need to understand the health of the knowledgebase and the processes that keep it continually renewed and up-to-date. And self-service website owners need analytics that will help them continuously improve the customer experience, online resolution rates, and call deflection. For each of these users, Aptean provides role-specific dashboards that analyze critical areas such as workflow status, knowledge effectiveness, contributor productivity, and much more. Line managers need to understand how well their team members are executing their knowledge and case management processes, and what value they’re creating in the knowledgebase. More than 9,000 customers around the world rely on us to give them a competitive edge. By providing innovative, industry-driven enterprise application software, Aptean helps businesses to satisfy their customers, operate most efficiently, and stay at the forefront of their industry. For more information, visit: www.aptean.com www.aptean.com Copyright © Aptean 2012. All rights reserved.